This is what FIFA world ranking tells of Ghana football

On Thursday March 15, 2018, world football governing powerhouse, FIFA released its monthly FIFA world ranking – ratings of how well nations are doing with their football.

Ghana showed up 54th in the Fifa world ranking and 8th on the continent.

The nation did no better the month before, ramping up the same positions in the FIFA world ranking and at CAF level, except in January when we clocked 50th/8th, which per the perking, we can accept as an improvement.

I decided to peruse the world rankings for the past decade in a hopeful pursuit of proof that our football is indeed improving. What is available is to the contrary; we are groping in a huge sinkhole and should be looking for real ground to clutch at.

Ghana’s 10-year FIFA world ranking

YEAR

Jan

Feb

Mar

Apr

May

Jun

July

Aug

Sept

Oct

Nov

Dec

2017

54

45

43

45

45

49

50

50

52

52

51

50

2016

33

41

41

38

38

37

36

35

43

45

53

53

2015

37

25

24

26

26

34

25

27

27

25

30

33

2014

24

37

35

38

38

37

38

36

33

35

37

37

2013

26

19

20

22

22

21

24

24

24

23

24

24

2012

26

23

23

22

25

25

33

32

31

31

29

30

2011

16

15

16

15

15

33

36

36

37

33

29

29

2010

—

27

28/31

32

32

—

23

23

20

17

17

16

2009

25

35

34

31

31

36

35

35

32

38

37

34

2008

43

14

15

14

14

16

20

19

20

25

26

25

While the numbers bear up the truth that our football has seen happy days within the past decade when the FIFA world ranking, if it is anything to go by, showed us strong and good with repeated positions among the world’s best, it also does not hide our real, pitiable sight and size today.

Ten years ago we were showing up at 14th, our best ever in the FIFA world ranking within the period, but are now doing 54th, our worst also. Our deterioration has been consistent.

Like most nations and as is natural, we have been vacillating on the FIFA world ranking, however the clear trend is that we are persistently failing. Tunisia, Senegal, Congo DR, Morocco, Egypt, Cameroon, and Nigeria are our better performing competitors.

ABOUT: Nana Kwesi Coomson

An Entrepreneur and Philanthropist. Editor-in-Chief of www.233times.com. A Senior Journalist with Ghanaian Chronicle Newspaper. An alumnus of Adisadel College where he read General Arts. He holds first degree in Bachelor of Arts from the University of Ghana; Political Science (major) and History (minor). He has also pursued MSc Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Energy with Public Relations (PR) at the Robert Gordon University in the United Kingdom. He is a 2018 Mandela Washington Fellow (YALI) who studied at Clark Atlanta University on the Business and Entrepreneurship track. His mentors are Rupert Murdoch, Warren Buffet, Sam Jonah, Kwaku Sakyi Addo and Piers Morgan